Ten to twenty developments from the past seven days, each with a source and a comment.
Every Monday the desk pulls the past seven days of perpetual-futures developments from a fixed source whitelist, removes duplicates, ranks by importance, classifies, verifies across sources, and writes a comment against each. Anything without an attributable who and where does not ship.
Twelve verified perpetual-futures developments from the week of October 5 - 11, 2026: the $546.89m long flush of 7 October, a record 435,564 open positions on Hyperliquid against thinning volume, the first negative ETF week in a month, the CFTC's CTX and CAM proposals, and a 30-year yield at a level last seen in 2002.
Read the issueTwelve verified perpetual-futures developments from the week of September 28 - October 4, 2026: the September payrolls miss, the $433.6m Friday flush of late longs, bitcoin ETFs' third straight positive week, Hyperliquid's positions-up-volume-down rotation and ZEC's first weekly ETF outflow.
Read the issueTen verified developments from the week of September 21 - 27, 2026: the Monday short squeeze, a record $2.39bn spot-ETF week, Hyperliquid's two-sided open-interest record, the GENIUS Act comment window, the Kalshi ruling and Bitget's $351.6m breach.
Read the issueTen verified perpetual-futures developments from the week of September 14 - 20, 2026: the first Fed hike since July 2023, the CLARITY Act's failed cloture vote, Payward's Hyperliquid perpetual plan, the SEC's tokenised-stock exemption and a bitcoin market that broke out anyway.
Read the issueTen verified developments from the week of September 7 - 13, 2026: the PPI flush, the CPI whipsaw and its one-hour short squeeze, four straight days of bitcoin ETF outflows and the CLARITY cloture clock.
Read the issueTen verified developments from the week of August 31 - September 6, 2026: the Waller squeeze, the payrolls reversal, an 84%-short liquidation day and the altcoin open-interest crossover.
Read the issueTen verified developments from the week of August 24-30, 2026: the Hyperliquid-Payward talks as first reported, the equity-perpetuals comment letters, and a cooling leverage complex into month end.
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